Mongolian Journal of International Affairshttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA
A journal published by the Institute of International Studies at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar.en-USenglish_journal@iis.mas.ac.mn (Ts. Batbayar)scumming@inasp.info (Sioux Cumming)Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0100OJS 2.4.6.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Third Neighbour Policy and Australiahttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/401
<p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 3-12</p>Ts Batbayar
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/401Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:18:07 +0100Mongolia’s Outreach into Southeast Asiahttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/402
<p>Mongolia’s outreach to Southeast Asia is part of a wider global strategy to raise its profi le in its own region and on the Eurasian continent. Mongolian policymakers now believe the nation needs tore-interpret its ‘third neighbor’ policy so that its voice is heard on Asian issues and not just wait on the sidelines for larger powers to make its decisions. Mongolia has adopted a very activist approach to elevate its political and economic ties to Southeast Asia in hopes of diversifying markets for its abundant minerals and animal by-products, purchasing consumer and high tech products from a wider range of partners, and attracting new types of FDI. It has re-invigorated past associations with nations that were part of Mongolia’s communist past such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and, even more significantly, spent considerable effort to establish strong new relationships with major regional players such as Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 13-33</p>Alicia Campi
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/402Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:25:05 +0100Russian Policy towards Northeast Asia: The Mongolia Factorhttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/403
<p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 34-48</p>Sharad K Soni
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/403Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:29:21 +0100New Questions on the Battle of Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan)http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/404
<p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 49-55</p>Hiroaki Kuromiya
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/404Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:34:42 +0100The Research on the Current Logistics Situation and the Dry Port Development of Mongoliahttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/405
<p>Nowadays, Mongolia has continually expanded the range of its foreign trade cooperation to include an increasing number of trade partners, which constructed its characteristic mercantile cooperative system, including the two significant neighboring countries, China and Russia, as its strategic partners, the Northeast Asia, as its major imports-exports area, and the increasingly enhanced trade cooperation with the Western countries. Mineral substance is one of the most important exports of Mongolia, which has created considerable foreign exchange receipt. However, as a land-locked country, Mongolia still faces the problems like weak logistics system and backward infrastructure, which impede the further development of the international trade of Mongolia. Building dry ports could shorten the distance between the inland areas and the international markets.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 56-66</p>Ochir Myagmarsuren, Minrong Deng
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/405Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:44:22 +0100Mongolian Foreign Policy Implications for Russia and Chinahttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/406
<p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 67-81</p>Vaishali Krishna
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/406Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:48:34 +0100Being Sinologists in Post-Communist-party States: Reflections from Czech, Poland and Russiahttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/407
<p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 82-86</p>Chih-yu Shih
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/407Sat, 07 Feb 2015 05:53:35 +0100Polish Sinology – Reflection Paperhttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/408
<p>This highly individual study is the first-ever attempt to describe Polish Sinology, Polish Sinologists and their individual choices, both vocational and social or political. The author, as an insider, uses interviews with some of the most important representatives of Polish Sinology (mainly of the older generation). He proposes individual systematization, fragmenting the history of the “real socialism” era (1950-1989) and after the democratic breakthrough of 1989 in many chapters, consisting of both collective and individual. Among the major findings is that the initial small circle of highly specialized individuals has recently been quickly growing, and so has the diversification within it. While until 1989 the career choices in this field were limited, basically an official (diplomatic or state bureaucratic) career was the only option, but after this threshold many new windows of opportunities were opened, which included for example personal choices like studying in Mainland China or Taiwan,, opening a business there, creating a website or even opening up a study center.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 87-115</p>Bogdan Góralczyk
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/408Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:02:15 +0100Between Sinology and Socialism: Collective Memory of Czech Sinologists in the 1950shttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/409
<p>This paper intends to explore the collective memory of Czech sinologists in the 1950s based on the political zone between sinology and socialism. Czech sinological development in the 1950s was grounded on the personal factor of Prusek and the socialist transformation of new China. Socialist China offers two possibilities for the development of sinology, the first for friendly relations among socialist countries, including overseas students, and the second for studies of contemporary Chinese literature. The developmental framework of Czech sinology in the 1950s, or the social framework of collective memory for the Czech sinologists should be understood in the region under the mutual penetration of sinology and socialist China. This paper, firstly, discusses the background framework of constructing the Czech sinologists in the 1950s— the link between new China and the other socialist countries, and the relation between Prusek and socialist China. Secondly, this paper will analyze Czech sinological experiences in the 1950s through Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 116-133</p>Ter-Hsing Cheng
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/409Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:09:17 +0100“Songs of Ancient China” – A Myth of “The Other” Appropriated by an Emerging Sinologyhttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/410
<p>Legendary Czech Sinologist Průšek was attached to the ideal world created by Mathesius. And as can be seen from the words of contemporary senior Sinologists, the power of Průšek’s translations had a universal appeal among Czech readers at that time, inspiring interest in Sinology. The poet Mathesius, and later the Sinologist Průšek, with his authority of a scholar and teacher, used Chinese poetry to build up the idea of China as a world that would be an alternative to their own imperfect reality. This vision was transmitted to Průšeks pupils and through the power of popularization, which was according to Průšekan integral part of the academic duties of each scholar, was spread all over the cultural public. This alternative imaginary world enabled them to immerse in a beautiful fairy-tale, yet at the same time a fairy-tale in which familiar things could be recognized and desired, a world for which it is worth living among all the tragedies and desperation of the lived reality.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 134-152</p>Olga Lomová, Anna Zádrapová
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/410Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:17:06 +0100Linguistic choices for the identity of “China” in the discourse of Czech Sinologistshttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/414
<p>This paper utilizes critical discourse analysis (CDA) to disclose the relationship between the lexical or textual device choices of the term “China” in the discourse of Czech Sinologists and how they tried to construct the identity of “China” in interviews collected by Professor Olga Lomová and her student Anna Zádrapová from 2010 to 2011.</p><p>The analysis will focus on how the Czech Sinologists talk about their “China” and evaluate the term “China” in the discourse, within their experiences, and in the context of the social and cultural situation of the time. On the one hand, this paper will discuss the textual devices which convey the term “China” in the interviews of the Czech Sinologists, in the form of linguistic units, such as nouns, adjectives, noun phrases, verbal phrases and so on, and on the other hand, investigate how their identities of “China” are reflected through their choices of lexical or textual devices.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 153-165</p>Melissa Shih-hui Lin
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/414Sat, 07 Feb 2015 07:08:14 +0100Different Ways to Become a Soviet Sinologist: A Note on personal choiceshttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/411
<p>It is and always was an uneasy path for a Western scholar to become a sinologist. In the current research there were included interviews of 33 Russian sinologists. To analyze the value of different components in the process to become a sinologist there were chosen few major factors in the family and social background, early years and education. In half of the cases decision to go for Chinese studies was taken under the temporary circumstances during admission or studies at universities, and wasn’t a result of strong personal interest. This situation was tightly connected with the politics in the USSR, when in late 1940-s and early 1950-s it was decided to prepare big number of sinologists to help Chinese modernization.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 166-177</p>Marina Kuznetsov
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/411Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:35:06 +0100Tangut (Xi Xia) Studies in the Soviet Union: Quinta Essentia of Russian Oriental Studieshttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/412
<p>Grace to the famous discovery of Piotr Kozlov’s expedition, a very rich collection of various Tangut books in a mausoleum in the dead city of Khara-Khoto was found in 1908, and almost all the texts in the Tangut language were then assembled in Saint-Petersburg. Because of this situation Russian Tangutology became one of the most important in the world very fast, and Russian specialists, especially Alexej Ivanov, did the first steps to understanding the Tangut language and history, which had for a very long time been hidden from humanity.</p><p>This tradition persisted in the Soviet Union. Nikolaj Nevskij in 1929 returned to Russia from Japan, where he had stayed after 1917, mainly to continue his Tangut researches. But in 1937, during Stalin’s Purge, he was arrested and executed, Ivanov too. The line of tradition was broken for almost twenty years, and only the 1960s saw the rebirth of Russian Tangutology. The post-War generation did a gigantic work, raising Tangut Studies to a new level. Unfortunately, they almost had no students or successors.</p><p>The dramatic history of Tangut Studies in Russia could be viewed like a real <em>quinta essentia </em>of the fate of Oriental Studies in Russia – but all the changes and tendencies are much more demonstrative of this example.</p><p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 178-196</p>Sergey Dmitriev
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/412Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:44:21 +0100Modern Mongolia: A Concise Historyhttp://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/413
<p>Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 197</p>Ts Batbayar, Sharad K Soni
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http://mongoliajol.info/index.php/MJIA/article/view/413Sat, 07 Feb 2015 06:52:50 +0100